The Wilder Shores Of Love - Couverture souple

Blanch, Lesley

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0753827913 ISBN 13 : 9780753827918

Editeur : W&N, 2010

Synopsis

The Wilder Shores of Love The classic story of four nineteenth-century women who, for different reasons, gravitated to the wildness of the Middle East and North Africa. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Four women who dared to live their romantic fantasies, not just dream them. Aimee Dubucq de Rivery was a convent girl who was captured by pirates and forced to join the enormous harem of the Turkish sultan. Lady Ellenborough was a society beauty who fled London and became notorious for her love affairs with the important men of Europe, including two kings - Ludwig of Bavaria and Otho of Greece, then she lived with an Arab sheik in Syria for almost 30 years. Isabel Burton travelled to exotic lands with her explorer husband. Isabelle Eberhardt was born and raised in Switzerland and grew up as a nonconformist, feeling most comfortable in boy's clothes. She lived among the Arabs in the North African desert and described her surroundings in travel writings and journals. Yet although of widely different natures, backgrounds and origins, all had this in common - each found, in the East, 'glowing horizons of emotion and daring'. And each of them, in their own way, used love as a means of individual expression, of liberation and fulfilment.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Lesley Blanch was born in London, England, and has travelled over most of the globe. She began her career as a painter, illustrator and theatrical designer, but in 1937 transferred her allegiance to journalism and became features editor of London VOGUE. Her essays and articles have since appeared in most of Britain's leading periodicals, including the OBSERVER and the NEW STATESMAN.

Her website is at www.lesleyblanch.com

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: W&N
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0753827913
• ISBN 13: 9780753827918
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336